Wow

It took three hours to get the new Nokia JDK working. Configuring the JDK with JBuilder was not the problem. Running the SDK with Nokia Connection Framework) was the only way to get the thing to work. However, once it was working I was overjoyed. All the Emulator bugs I had a problem with are gone. Bluetooth connection close commands don’t hang the Emulator anymore. Fantastic!

However, I get three shocks. First of all, it was taking eight seconds for the emulator to generate the Map. Then size of the XML Stream was 32+K. That would have taken ages to process, over twenty seconds for the thing to transfer. I did some investigation and it was the size of the tags that were the issue so I kept on cutting them down, but even with full XML, it was still had to transfer 12K.

I made a drastic decision. The “<>” parts of the tags where removed and that got the average map size down to 6-8K, which I reckon is manageable for the user to wait, especially if you put a gauge control on the form.

The final problem is to do with the New JDK. I can’t get a Bluetooth connection working. I’m going to have to investigate that tonight. If I can get that out of the way, I feel this JDK will give me the breakthrough I’ve been trying for the last month. I might be able to implement the automatic search and challenge algorithm I originally designed but had to stop due to the problems with the previous JDK.